[ECOS] Question

[Jesper Skov]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:11, Francesco Regazzoni wrote:
> Dear anyone,
> 
> We are two students. We read the user manual but we need some more
> detailed information about eCos, in particular, we would like to know
> how eCos manages dead-lines and how exactly work priority and event
> management, since we couldn't find them in the eCos manuals.

dead-lines? You mean dead-locks, right? Well, there's not much it can do
about it if the application code contains dead-locks. However, see this
page for some details about how the synchronization primitives provide
some protection against priority-inversion dead-locks:
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/ref/ecos-ref.4.html#pgfId=1076147

Jesper